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Steve Bannon Defends ‘Fire and Fury,’ Slams CNN and Facebook, Deflects Cambridge Analytica Questions

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Former top Trump advisor Steve Bannon on Thursday took aim at CNN and Facebook, defended his dishing in the White House tell-all “Fire and Fury,” and deflected questions about his involvement with the Cambridge Analytica firm at the center of the data breach controversy that has enveloped Facebook.
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Says Trump looking to get rid of Chief of Staff Role:
Bannon predicted that Trump will not hold a face to face meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, and he predicted that the role of the Chief of Staff in the White House will be replaced by a system “like there was in Trump Tower” in which five or six key lieutenants report directly to the President.
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Bannon defends Fire and Fury:
Bannon said he hasn’t read “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff’s best-selling account of chaos in the Trump administration. Bannon said he does not regret being an on-the-record source in the book. He also argued that it was “authorized” by former White House communications chief Hope Hicks and Trump himself.

“I haven’t seen anybody refute anything that was said in the book,” Bannon said.
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Sounds like he's thinking about creating a conservative social network:
Later in the 40-minute conversation, Bannon expressed interest in “mobilizing a digital grassroots army in the United States –a think tank or something to weaponize ideas.”
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Does not remember buying facebook data:
But when pressed about his investment in Cambridge Analytica, Bannon pointed fingers in the other direction, including the use of Facebook data in 2008 by the Obama campaign.
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Very good article by Variety. Bannon is an impressive person but for all the wrong reasons as well as his misguided loyalty to Trump, but he does have an interesting take on things in the media.

Steve Bannon Defends ‘Fire and Fury,’ Slams CNN and Facebook, Deflects Cambridge Analytica Questions – Variety
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Says Trump looking to get rid of Chief of Staff Role:



Bannon defends Fire and Fury:


Sounds like he's thinking about creating a conservative social network:


Does not remember buying facebook data:


Very good article by Variety. Bannon is an impressive person but for all the wrong reasons as well as his misguided loyalty to Trump, but he does have an interesting take on things in the media.

Steve Bannon Defends ‘Fire and Fury,’ Slams CNN and Facebook, Deflects Cambridge Analytica Questions – Variety
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I'll read the article when I get a chance, but I'll just comment on Bannon.

Yes, Bannon's a very smart guy with novel & interesting takes on situations. He's a great thinker, to be honest. In some instances, he reminds me a bit of the real-life Chomsky. But it's such a shame he has such terrible ideology & causes. A waste of great brain-power, in my opinion.
 
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